CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Aki Rantakolmonen First of all, greetings from Finland, Kurt Wallander! I usually do not watch a lot film series, but this is just so much different. Better. Much better than ANY other detective series out there. Right now one of our TV-channels are presenting a Wallander movie on Saturdays every week! I'm always eagerly waiting another one and it's easily a highlight of my whole week/weekend at the moment! Krtister Henriksson is the main reason. Absolutely fantastic actor. He really may be the most memorable and impressive character which I've ever seen. He's calm and clever. I have always good feeling when I watch him playing the role of Kurt Wallander. It's.. Almost like a magic.Of course the script and screenplay is also very important factor in detective stories. Of course there's couple things here and there which are just slightly impractical or clichés but that actually hasn't never bothered me.Conclusion; After every movie, I'm happy. And when Wallander usually just walks away at the end of the movie and music starts playing, I feel great, I smile and get shivers. What could be better feeling after watching a movie? I'm absolutely loving these movies. Krister Henriksson, thank you for being Kurt Wallander for all these years. Golden times that we will never forget.

bluered-84815 There is a great pleasure to be had in watching cinema in a language that you do not understand;an adventure and straining of your faculties in trying to derive the meaning of phrases that sometimes do resemble English, but not totally.The sub-titles help.Henriksson is the consummate actor, at once the father figure and also the failed father-man.I have always found a certain attractive sparsity in Swedish drama that contrast the more over-weighty and over-wordy cinema of British and American traditions,a leaner more trenchant quality.Sometimes quite a bit less is more, especially in convoluted and complex narrations that seemingly have no apparent solution but deliver more satisfaction and amusement in the final denouement. This is without a doubt much better that what was a very good English production.Intelligent acting,enticing cinematography,and story plots to match!

Leon Zap I would do 10 but I heard IMDb would invalidate the lowest and highest rating. I lived in Sweden for almost a year so many of the Sweden landscape and atmosphere is coming back to me viscerally. I tried to watch the BBC version which is astounding but nothing like how Swedes do it.They have so much micro expressions and knowing how Scandinavians are, I really enjoy this series deeply. I understand some phrases and the translation is pretty good. Of course Swedes speak really good English so I think the subtitles captured it pretty well. The Swedish Wallander actor has a lot of depth and Kenneth Branagh in the BBC version is no slouch. One thing about this series is that one episode is a complete story at least as far as the case is concerned. However the backdrop of the relationships will only be understood if you watch an entire season. Netflix does not have the 1st series so I will probably buy it on Amazon. I will also hunt for the book/s.I love classic Swedish films but the new ones are also as classy. I am even surprised how good their television is as well. As long as you are willing to read the subtitles and research the Swedish culture a bit, you are in for a treat.

dehog-1 I had seen all the British Wallander shows and loved them so I checked out the Swedish one even if I had never seen any Swedish shows. ....I really like it so I am a big fan of both and do not try and compare them. On a side note....I love to listen for words that an American can understand when the Swedish actors talk. :)I care for both lead actors and they both make you feel what they are feeling. I liked Linda in the Swedish story but she made me sad most of the time. ...I like the story lines and really get excited to see how they will solve the crime. All the side actors do well. I wonder if there are any other Swedish shows I would like?